Task 3:

Task 3: Literacy Strategies

Describe the classroom environment. (Photo)

Consider how the class is a print rich environment. What print can you see around the room?
(Labels, captions, flashcards, headings, rules, instructions, timetable, flash cards, etc.). For each
one you mention insert pictures and state the purpose of each one.
I like the classroom environment, its colorful and there is a lot of instructions and flash cards.
The teacher put the names of students in four different color in group, for example yellow
group is low students, green and blue in the middle and the red high level.

In reading area there is instruction and ways to read a book, first read a pictures then read the
words, finely retell the story.

Describe the reading area in your classroom. What genres of books are there and how are they
displayed? (Photo)
In Reading area there is place for setting to read a story and some roles for reading a story also
there is different books Arabic and English books.
Consider different reading approaches have you observed? (Guided reading, Shared Reading,
Sustained Silent Reading).
Choose 2 and describe how the teacher implements these approaches in the class in detail.
(Photos, and refer to EPR 2603)
Consider seating arrangement, participation, comprehension, reading strategies in your
discussion.

The teacher uses shared reading, she sits with the students in the carpet and read for the
students a story after finishing from the story she asks them to role play the story.

Also, the teacher makes the students to read by themselves each student take a book and read
it on silent its call silent reading.
Describe some types of writing activities or the method the teacher uses for writing – e.g.
emergent writing, copy writing, dictations, etc.

The teacher makes for the students dictations she ask them to write letters or numbers without
seeing the letter or number.